, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms' absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …

, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …

conditional on controlling for initial selection, the establishment of SEZs induced no further productivity gains for within SEZ … experienced significant productivity gains. However, SEZs created negative externalities for firms in the vicinity which attenuate …

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … located at different quantiles of the productivity distribution by using conditional quantile regression. Overall, while there … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …